Richard Mark Hanley
Biographic Data
| ID | 10074638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Mark Hanley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanley |
| SIGNATURE | HANLEY R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2234-3170 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Beaming Bodies
Conventional wisdom holds that human bodies do not and cannot persist through beaming: scanning and destruction of the body, followed by transmission of the scan information and replication of the body in another location. I argue that given the minimal time travel assumption that information can be sent into the past, it is logically possible for (duplicates of) human bodies to exist in object loops. If so, then conventional wisdom is wrong, and…
Autoinfanticide Is No Biggie
David Lewis’s attempt to defuse grandfather paradoxes consistently without special restrictions on the ability of time travelers to act in the past is controversial. Kadri Vihvelin uses the case of possible autoinfanticide—killing one’s infant self—to argue on Lewisian grounds that Lewis is wrong, since all counterfactual attempts at autoinfanticide would fail. I present a new defense of Lewis against Vihvelin premised on the possibility of perso…
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Autoinfanticide Is No Biggie
David Lewis’s attempt to defuse grandfather paradoxes consistently without special restrictions on the ability of time travelers to act in the past is controversial. Kadri Vihvelin uses the case of possible autoinfanticide—killing one’s infant self—to argue on Lewisian grounds that Lewis is wrong, since all counterfactual attempts at autoinfanticide would fail. I present a new defense of Lewis against Vihvelin premised on the possibility of perso…
Beaming Bodies
Conventional wisdom holds that human bodies do not and cannot persist through beaming: scanning and destruction of the body, followed by transmission of the scan information and replication of the body in another location. I argue that given the minimal time travel assumption that information can be sent into the past, it is logically possible for (duplicates of) human bodies to exist in object loops. If so, then conventional wisdom is wrong, and…
Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 work) · Geology (1 work) · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Philosophy and History of Science (1 work) · Physics (1 work)